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Who's Taylor Swift Anyway? Exhibition opening in NYC
This is real 
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If sentimentality kills, then Taylor Swift is our deadliest assassin. -- Chris Tyler
Fowler Project Space is pleased to present Who’s Taylor Swift Anyway?, a group exhibition curated by Elizabeth Grammaticas. This exhibit seeks to explore our relationship to celebrity through embodiments of the pop-fictional character, Taylor Swift. NY Magazine recently named Swift the world’s biggest pop star with her 7 Grammy awards, record breaking music sales, numerous advertising endorsements, and branded products. How has this inescapable singer transformed our cultural landscape, and how might our relatively recent 24/7 obsession with all things celebrity affect how we relate to each other in “the real world”?
Who’s Taylor Swift Anyway? combines painting, video, installation, and performance by 6 talented artists: Elizabeth Grammaticas, Lauren Kaelin, Elisa Kresigner, Torie Leigh, Jennifer McDermott, and Chris Tyler. Each artist grapples in their own way with our relationship to pop culture whether it be by inhabiting the character of Taylor Swift in performance, by commenting on, creating, and disseminating memes, or by testing the boundaries of Copyright Laws and how they relate to artistic expression.
Elizabeth Grammaticas's work is on ongoing investigation of the intense relationships we form with celebrity and other fictional and semi-fictional people we encounter through the media. Whether it’s studying Taylor Swift’s instagram feed, or using Taylor tools to process trauma through performance, Grammaticas explores pop culture's effect on our psyches. She is also responsible for the uncomfortable GIF explosion of awkwardtaylorswiftdancing.com
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OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, Mar. 28, 2014, from 7-9pm
EXHIBITION DATES: March 28 - April 13, 2014
Now this is real IMPACT 
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